Test 2 · ★★★ · Electric cars and charging

What would happen to an electric car's range on a freezing day with the heater on full?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «Electric cars and charging» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	9 range	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
6	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 car	amod
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 range	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 car	case
9	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 day	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	compound
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 heater	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heater	det
16	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 full	case
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heater	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					day	to a electric car's range	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

It would charge itself from the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 charge	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 charge	aux
3	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 charge	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 cold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	would	It	itself = it		the cold			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location itself=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would go much further

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 further	advmod
5	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would go less far on one charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 go	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 charge	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 charge	nummod
8	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It			one charge		far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on charge=Location

Option 4

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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